{"id":334,"date":"2011-08-21T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-08-21T18:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:33:46","slug":"health-evidence-and-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Health, Evidence and Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a post about Fukushima today, but instead I ended up having a discussion about Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and it&#8217;s intersection with free-market economics. This was precipated by <a href=\"http:\/\/unhub.com\/amcunningham\/\">Anne-Marie Cunningham<\/a> sharing a couple of papers about EBM and the values implicit in it&#8217;s use. These are both from the &#8217;90s, but should be read by anyone with an interest in the roots of the current round of NHS reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Links to both the papers can be found in my <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104391683751510272321\/posts\/g3C1ja3af2J\">G+ post on the issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that I&#8217;ll leave you with a quote from Florence Nightingale: &#8216;I need not remind you that what we get into scrapes for is not for saying what nobody believes and everybody says but for saying what everybody believes and nobody says&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a post about Fukushima today, but instead I ended up having a discussion about Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and it&#8217;s intersection with free-market economics. This was precipated by Anne-Marie Cunningham sharing a couple of papers about EBM and the values implicit in it&#8217;s use. These are both from the &#8217;90s, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health, Evidence and Economics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}